Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
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Episodes (360)
Mare of Easttown and the Philly Accent
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English Has a Bee in Its Bonnet
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Russian Is My Mt. Everest
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Languages of Northern Africa
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You’re Gonna Hafta
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The Languages of Southeast Asia
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Irregardless Make You Cringe?
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Nine Nasty Words
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The Invisible Complexities of Translation
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English Is Plain Weird
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Subject-Verb-Object, Right?
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Parting Company
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Wallowing in Negativity
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Fossil Hunting in English
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Why Do Languages Have Gender?
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Forgetting Your Roots
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Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?
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Getting Got
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On the Origin of English
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White Author, Black English. Problem?
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Do Cats Have Language?
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Sergeant, Corporal, Colonel
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To Reason Why
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When Talking to Your Mother-in-Law Is a Minefield
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The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole
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This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?
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When Jews Adapted Spanish
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Does English Have a Future?
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Defund Karen
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Beyond the Five Ws
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Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak
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Coronavirus: Isolation and Aspiration
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Our Indigenous Languages
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I Just Can't!
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The Many Meanings of Too
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Sicko, Whacko, Weirdo
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A Myth Surrounding Mandarin
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From Uptalk to Vocal Fry
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In What Order Did Languages Arrive in Europe?
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Digging Up the Past
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Verbs on the Move
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Does Processes Rhyme With Knees?
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A Bisl Yiddish
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Private Parts
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The Soft Power of Like
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Men, Women and Children
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Zombie English
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Let's Do Lunch
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How to Think Like a Linguist
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Has English Gotten Less Complex?
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